Horror Headlines 4/21/08

Don Mancini (The "Child's Play" Series) and Howie Mandel (of "Bobbie's World" fame... ha) are co-producing a pilot for the Sci-fi Channel titled "Kill Switch", about a woman who can teleport herself into the bodies of people about to be murdered. Also of note, now that I think about it Mancini kind of looks like Mandel when he had hair. Coincidence? Ya, probably.

Wow... it seems that horror fans who have rented the French film "Inside" from Blockbuster are being met with a nasty surprise, those bastards at Cockbuster have cut 7 minutes from the film!. So, that's 7 minutes of gut churning blood you're missing out on, and since we saw the Unrated Director's cut, I'm guessing it deadens the impact quite significantly. Infuriated about this as me? Leave your thoughts in the comments. At least we can take heart that Netflix's customer base is still much larger than Blockbuster and the brick and mortar video store is quickly going the way of the dodo. It's unfortunate, but since the Mom and Pop shops died out years ago I think it's time for the whole damn thing to come down. Damn the man.

There's only one rule in Baby Fight Club, and that's that when we're done everyone gets a nap... and a baba.

On this day in history:

1847: Lewis Keseberg, the final member of the Donner Party still stranded in the mountains, is escorted to safety by a fourth rescue party. Later accounts hold that Keseberg was discovered "seated, like a ghoul, in the midst of dead bodies, with his face and hands smeared with blood, and a kettle of human flesh boiling over the fire."